💥 Sensational news!!! The 40th Spix’s Macaw chick of the breeding season 2021 hatched four days ago, and we are indeed expecting more yet! The Spix's Macaw is a parrot that has already been extinct in the wild! We proudly present the first, at today's three-month-old Spix's Macaw and the youngest Spix's Macaw chick of this breeding season! 💙 Since the first youngsters left the baby station over a month ago and learned to eat for themselves, the incubators have filled up with more lately hatche

Extinct in the wild! ‼️ Loud calls and screeching are specific to the species of the Spix's macaw too. Various and sometimes deafening alarm and excitement calls are part of their territorial behavior. As is typical for parrots, Spix's macaws also include strange environment noises in their repertoire. For example, this one bird sometimes sounds like a cat's meow. The synchronous calling of a couple, as been seen in the film, is called duetting. These two birds are marking their nesting territor

Are these Spix macaws extinct? The world once believed this bird had vanished forever. The Spix’s macaw was declared extinct in the wild in 2000 after the last known wild bird disappeared. For more than two decades, the species survived only in captivity — a fragile thread of hope held by dedicated breeders and conservationists. Now, that story is changing. In January 2025, 41 captive-bred Spix’s macaws were transferred from Germany to a reintroduction center in Bahia, Brazil. There, they are be